Calculate the environmental footprint of your food
3 years, 11 months ago

Calculate the environmental footprint of your food

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Calculate the environmental footprint of your food Getty Images Unravelling how the food you eat affects the environment can be tricky, which is why BBC Future has created a Foodprint Calculator to reveal how different choices change the impact you have. The entire food system – which includes the production, packaging, transportation and disposal of everything we eat – accounts for 21-37% of all human-produced greenhouse gas emissions. By 2050, our food could account for almost half of all carbon emissions released by human activity unless more steps are taken to reduce its environmental impact. The figures used in this calculator are based on an average of data from many parts of the world – but the complex global nature of our food chains means the same items produced in different parts of the world will vary wildly in the amount of water they use, the carbon emissions they produce and the fertilisers they require.

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